misnomev.
/ˌmɪsˈnəʊm/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈnoʊm/ rare.
transitive. To misname.
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the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > misname
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1820 C. R. Maturin Melmoth IV. xxviii. 265 There were some cumbrous vehicles, misnomed carriages, of a fashion indescribably inconvenient, but gorgeously gilded and painted.
1852 Lytton in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 71 86/1 This My Novel..was misnomed and insulted as ‘a Continuation of The Caxtons’.
1959 Amer. Hist. Rev. 64 952 The third essay, somewhat misnomed ‘Machiavelli's Method and Style’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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